Demons

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.brbrbriFrom the Trade Paperback edition./i"(An) admirable new translation of...Dostoevsky's masterpiece." -iNew York Review of Books/ibrbr"The merit in this edition ofiDemons/iresides in the technical virtuosity of the translators...They capture the feverishly intense, personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest themselves in Russian life." -iNew York Times Book Reviewbr/ibr"iDemons/iis the Dostoevsky novel for our age...(Pevear and Volokhonsky) have managed to capture and differentiate the characters' many voices...They come into their own when faced with Dostoevsky's wonderfully quirky use of varied speech patterns...A capital job of restoration." -iLos Angeles Times/ibrbrWith an Introduction by Richard Pevear